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title: On the very last evening when the flies were still open to the publi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the very last evening when the flies were still open to the public, the "Judgment of Solomon" was performed, as our aunt remembered very well. Who acts: flies, aunt. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 48

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On the very last evening when the flies were still open to the public, the "Judgment of Solomon" was performed, as our aunt remembered very well.

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**Who acts:** flies, aunt · **What happens:** be, perform, remember, judge · **To what, where:** Judgment, Solomon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies, aunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:139:48
# text = On the very last evening when the flies were still open to the public, the "Judgment of Solomon" was performed, as our aunt remembered very well.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the flies |  |  |  | still | to the public; open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | past · passive |  | the Judgment of Solomon |  |  | evening |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | participle | our aunt |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **judge** *in a quote* |  |  | Solomon |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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